Top Funeral Quotes

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.

Funeral Definition

(n.) The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural.

(n.) The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.

(n.) A funeral sermon; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) Per. taining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies.

I have drunk the night and swallowed the stars. I am dancing with abandon and singing with rapture. There is not a thing I do not love. There is not a person I have not forgiven. I feel a universe of...

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.

Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.

My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience.

Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.

We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead.

…Do you think there’s somewhere else, some other place to go after this one? Mandy blurted out. You mean when you die, where will you end up? Alecto asked her. …I wouldn’t know… back to whatever void...

What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried him in the earth at the bottom of the garden. And all his molecules w...

Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.

Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.

The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with...

The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today.

Delay is not a help-mate. The cemetary is full of people who thought they could DO IT tomorrow. Do It Now!

My funeral, the Blue Man said. Look at the mourners. Some did not even know me well, yet they came. Why? Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why people feel they should?It is becau...

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,And Mourners to and froKept treading – treading – till it seemedThat Sense was breaking through – And when they all were seated,A Service, like a Drum – Kept beating – be...

Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.